
For example, “Refuse the depopulation jab and preserve your fertility”. She insists on putting up posters in her window with what I’m sure she hopes are pungent and pertinent messages. What I cannot abide are the regular outpourings from our neighbourhood jab-dodger.

Now, I like a good slogan as much as the next man - “Go to work on an egg”, “A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play”. As Mr Barlow says, it’s enough to make Michael Marks and Thomas Spencer spin in their graves. However much you try to wrap it up in zippy management speak, “rotating our store estate” means that M&S is closing its Broadmead branch in the city after 70 years.

He asked: “Why can’t people say what they mean?” and quoted this from the Bristol Post: “ ‘Shopping habits are changing, so we’re rotating our store estate to make sure we have the right stores to offer our customers a brilliant shopping experience,’ said M&S regional manager John Dorrington.” A nother week and another far from gruntled correspondent, this one being Ian Barlow from Bristol.
